Sümeyra Yüce, also known as Süm de la Creme, is a Turkish artist with formal academic training who works across digital and traditional mediums. Her practice draws on psychology, philosophy, mythology and archetypal symbolism, with animal and botanical motifs as recurring elements of her visual language.
In an interview, Yüce traced her practice to a serious accident she experienced in high school, after which much of her work grew out of existential fear. She approaches negative experiences as “spaces that hold freedom, transformation, and possibility”. She describes each of her pieces as beginning as “a thought equation already resolved” in her mind. In 2022, she was among several women artists brought into the NFT community La Créme De La Créme by its founder Basaia and other members, according to founding member Artwolf.
